News about Kim Clijsters

MATTHEW LAMBERT AT FLUSHING MEADOWS: In recent years on the WTA Tour, it has seemed like winning a Grand Slam has been at least as much a curse as a blessing. Two poster girls for that theory face off on Tuesday, with 2021 US Open champion Emma Raducanu taking on 2020 Australian Open winner Sofia Kenin. Since her breakout year Kenin has reached only a single final and Raducanu has made none, with both admitting the pressure of backing up those major wins has at times been crippling. Kenin, now 25, was a teen prodigy and her win Down Under was far less out-of-the-blue than Raducanu's Fairytale of New York.

Retired Australian tennis champion Ash Barty (left) has added another accolade to her collection at Wimbledon, finishing as runner-up alongside her close friend Casey Dellacqua in a rare comeback as they played two greats of women's tennis (Kim Clijsters pictured right).

Former world No.1 Kim Clijsters (inset) took a break from the court when she started a family, then won the US Open twice - and Barty's recent Wimbledon appearance has seen her make a bold statement.

Although injuries are normal in sports, they do occur in the most tragic of circumstances. Cherry is not the first sportsperson to have been barred from action due to a strange accident, and it will not be the last. Sport has seen it all, from power drills to jars of salad cream, and there will almost certainly be more to come. Mail Sport has obtained a look at some of the most bizarre injuries suffered by athletes in the sport.

Chris Eubanks continued his stellar play at Wimbledon with a dramatic five-set win over fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas to advance to the first Grand Slam singles quarter final. The 27-year-old, the son of a Baptist minister from Atlanta, has defeated British No. 1 Cam Norrie and Tsitsipas en route to the last eight at SW18. Eubanks, who are currently ranked No. 43 in the world, has never been outside the second round of a major, but he will now face third seed Daniil Medvedev after defeating Tsitsipas 3-6 6-4 6-4 6-4 6-4 6-4 on No. 2 Court.

LEWIS STEELE AT WIMBLEDON: It was three close sets in tiebreaks, but Chris Eubanks delivered three knockout blows, and the American will now face the heavyweights in Wimbledon's second week. Eubanks, a late bloomer who is 27 years old, is another product of the college tennis scene in the United States and is apparently now punching above his weight after years of toiling around the world No. 150 to 200. That is not to detract from his extraordinary abilities. The rocky Eubanks, at 6ft 7in, is one of the best stories of the first week here, and even received adulation from the locals in watching off Brit Cam Norrie on Friday night, beating Christopher O'Connell 7-6, 7-6.

Ash Barty (pictured left), who became the mother of a baby (right), has shocked her old adversaries at Wimbledon, and many people believe the Aussie will return to the sport as a tennis'supermum' one day.' When she said she was "very happy" for Barty, world number two Aryna Sabalenka addressed many.

With two more well-known players, Major League Pickleball is adding to its roster of owners: Tom Brady and Kim Clijsters. As the league expands from 12 to 16, the two have been named as part of an ownership group of an expansion club that will begin playing in 2023. Brady and Clijsters are a team of NBA athletes LeBron James, Kevin Love, and Draymond Green, who purchased another expansion team together last month. Knighthead Capital Management LLC leads the Brady and Clijsters group, as well as financial advisor Kaitlyn Kerr, who will serve as the team's general manager. Matt Alvarez, a film director who appeared on 'Straight Outta Compton,' is also an investor. According to Front Office Sports, half of the new team will be female-owned. The MLP has called for gender parity in ownership. Founder Steve Kuhn told FOS that the owner owners of the company will'showcase the joy [pickleball] brings to millions of people around the world.' The MLP season will come to an end this weekend in a tournament where a reported $319,000 is at stake.

Federer, 41, will compete at the Laver Cup, an ATP tournament in London, starting on Friday, as the Swiss maestro denied rumors of following Tom Brady and 'unretiring'. Savannah Guthrie of NBC Today wanted to be 100% positive that the Tennis legend had made his decision up right away. 'You know, unretiring is a thing now,' NBC Today's co-anchor said. 'You're done?' No, no. Federer replied, 'I am certainly done.' 'I know that,' he says.' On social media last week, the man with 103 career titles and a 1251-275 (82 percent) overall record announced his retirement from tennis.

Serena Williams has one last tournament awaiting her after 26 years in competitive tennis. In her homeland and around the world, a final opportunity to enshrine the Williams name into the tapestry of tennis. Serena is clearly going out on her terms, as seen in this article. In Vogue, the 40-year-old said she would step away from tennis and immerse herself in a life beyond the sport.

Naomi Osaka sparked a lot of controversy when she revealed that she would like to play Mixed Doubles at the US Open. As she bowed out in the first round in Cincinnati going down in straight sets to Zhang Shuai this week, the 24-year-old putback in her major preparations come at a later date this month. However, she could now be taking a different route to the tournament in Flushing Meadow. The four-time Grand Slam champion revealed that she would like to participate in the US Open Mixed Doubles competition but admitted she had reservations about it.

Serena has announced that she will step away from tennis at age 41 after more than 25 years as one of the sport's best performers. She told Vogue that she did not have a concrete date on when she'll stop playing and that she does not want to use the term'retirement,' but rather, she's calling it a 'transition.' Since almost dying due to complications during her daughter's birth, Olympia, she is now focused on her family and wants to have a second child with her husband, Alexis Ohanian. Venus Williams, a teenage girl from Compton, California, where her father had to fight gang members so that she and her sister, Venus Williams, could use the local tennis courts. The pro athlete first picked up a racket when she was three years old, took part in her first competitive match in 1995 and has since developed to become one of the best players in the country. Take a look back at Serena's stellar career from start to finish, recognizing her commitment to closing the tennis chapter in her life once and for all.